KARA 62 =)

Examples of discrimination:

  • The white peoples called them naughty words.
  • Some of the whites that tryed to kill them were smiling and laughing
  • A white man was wearing a "Never" button
  • The whites tryed to kill all the blacks in the march


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Olivia Hardy 68
Examples of Discrimination in chapter 6 of A Tugging String
  • They call black people horrible names, they used this name to bring down colored people in the sixtys and even now it is a very offensive term to call a black person.
  • Hit black people very badly and even killed some people. (with clubs, bullwhips, barb wire, etc.)
  • Whites beat them badly but the blacks refused to fight back.
  • The jails and hospitals were even seperated "whites" and "coloreds"
  • President Johnson didn't send troups to help the colored but he sent the troups to vietnam.

Kylie 63
Examples of Dicrimination in chapter 4 of A Tugging String
- The voting registration office had a "whites only" door, and a "coloreds only", to segregate the two races
- People working at the voting office locked, and wouldn't open the colored's door, because they did not want to deal with them, and let them vote
- Black people had to wait long amounts of time in a waiting room, to be helped, because the workers didn't want to register them and give them rights
- Dorothy and other blacks had to answer a series of various, complicated questions, including a nearly impossible qustin asking "How many bubbles in a bar of soap?"
- Colored people had to pay a fee of $5.00 to register to vote, but they did not charge white people a fee
- A lady working at the desk on the "coloreds" side of the office, was being very rude to Dorothy by smoking and coughing in her face
- The woman at the desk helped the white people first, and then taking her time to assist the colored people
- Dorothy was arguing with the workers, and her husband was fired because his wife caused a 'commotion'


Connor 65
examles of dicrimination
  • coloreds injured and were sent to jail
  • they wanted the blacks off the street
  • they called them names